Ken Jennings game summaries

The following are comprehensive summaries for each day of Ken Jennings's streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

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Ken Jennings - Syndicated - Game show - Jeopardy!

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Italicized episode numbers indicate games in which Ken was not a player.

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* Largest Jeopardy! one-day winning total.

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** Broken record of highest overall winnings ever won on Jeopardy!, including special tournaments.

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*** An opponent's name in (parentheses) indicates that the opponent was ineligible to compete in Final Jeopardy! To be eligible for Final Jeopardy!, the contestant must have a positive score at the end of Double Jeopardy!

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**** Broken record of total winnings on a game show.

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# Although Jennings's total for the day was $8,799, the second-place consolation prize is $2,000, regardless of the player's actual total for that game.

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+ Because of Election Day pre-emptions, syndicator CBS / King World, re-arranged the episodes which had been taped to air during the week of November 1, 2004. Many Jeopardy! affiliates air a Classic game from the past on weekends, but CBS announced the shows that were to air November 2 to November 5 would be pushed back a day, and made the weekend airing an original game. Markets without the Classic game were asked to specially reserve a weekend time slot for the special airing.

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November 1 - 2004 - November 2 - November 5

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Average daily winnings of 74 winning episodes: $34,063.51

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Average daily winnings with 75th episode: $33,636.00

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Average daily winnings with final day's total ($8,799): $33,726.65

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More detailed Ken Jennings statistics have been compiled by Andy Saunders.

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The theoretical maximum win for a single game of Jeopardy! is US$566,400, but this requires choosing all of the Daily Doubles last and that they're all placed behind the lowest valued clues, for which the odds are 3,288,600 to 1 (assuming they are randomly placed). Depending on placement and order of the Daily Doubles, a so-called "perfect game" (every question correct, always maximum wager when called to do so) can range from $208,000 to $566,400, with a mean of $374,400.

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US$ - Odds - Mean

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